The Calamity ClubThe Calamity Club

Oxford, Mississippi, 1933. Abandoned by her mother one Christmas Eve, eleven-year-old Meg Lefleur has learned the hard way to rely on no one. Now one of the unadoptable "big girls" at the Lafayette County Orphan Asylum, she fights each day to keep her spirit unbowed. Birdie Calhoun, unmarried and outspoken, has come to Oxford to ask her socialite sister to help the struggling family shes left behind. But as the Depression tightens its grip, Birdie discovers her sisters seemingly charmed life is a tapestry of lies. Then, Birdie encounters Charlie, a woman running low on luck with little left to lose. When their fatesand Megsconverge, Charlie comes up with an audacious plan to claim whats rightfully theirs. But in a place and time where hypocrisy is rife and womens freedom is fragile, even the smallest act of defiance can have dangerous consequences.